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Are you illiterate?
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The throughline is supporting the status quo: in this case, now that the bike lanes exist, they are good.
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I'm getting the sense I should run next time so that there's a proper leftist boogeyman to make the "omg DSA endorsements" candidates more palatable to the DINOs.
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That's a wild response. The amount of disinformation around what the mayor is and isn't in charge of has been significant, and continues to be a huge source of confusion and frustration by residents. I strongly recommend adopting a different editorial stance going forward.
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It was tough.
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I look forward to working closely together, both bilaterally and within the G7.
We'll defend our shared democratic values, promote multilateralism, and champion free and fair trade.
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The swag was great, too.
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I guarantee you if We Love and All Of stood down, MPLS For the Many would as well.
It was a necessary defensive response to the repulsive flood of monied disinformation from All of Minneapolis that killed the dept of public safety and instated the strong mayor.
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I think it's still extremely relevant. You're talking about the Pettis book, correct?
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I lost friends in 2015 calling this out.
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When you're talking about a systemic cause, you're not concerned about "which particular" random event tilts the system; you're talking about the likelihood and capability of the system to be tilted.
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There's no redo there; the system (in this case, the hardening of self-identity, the sunk costs, etc) isn't in the same place, so simply "repeating Bernie" wouldn't be as effective in a different moment. Lots of other examples as well, but I don't think it's an either/or situation for history.
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One example: I think a Bernie 2016 ticket could have prevented a lot of the brainrot that some of the people who ultimately voted for Trump in that election underwent. There was a moment before they had fully cast themselves into the self-identity of "Trump voters" that was available in that moment.
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Both are true, imho. I tend to think of these things through a systems-theoretical lens. Systems that are close to equilibrium are very resilient against random shocks like these; systems far from equilibrium are extremely susceptible.
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They saw all the uncommitted votes and thought "ah, these disaffected DFLers yearn for the MAGA" and not "these stores would get torched*immediately*"
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What's with the Wedge erasure?
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The penguins will have their revenge.